“Getting famous is as easy as having sex and letting the cameras roll…When his longtime crush finally asked him out on a date, Zach Stone hatched a plan to cash in on his first time. Because who wouldn’t want to see a sex movie starring an awkward virgin?”

The PTC has long warned audiences about the corrosive influence of radio “shock-jock” Howard Stern. In the June 3rd issue of TV Guide Stern boasted of his role a judge on an NBC reality show: “The best part of America’s Got Talent is that appeals to the base instincts of us all.”

The entertainment industry is apparently bent on pushing graphic sex into every home. But rather than serving as a critical counter-balance of the industry’s worst impulses, the entertainment trade press is in the tank for the industry’s sleaze-mongers – as a recent issue of TV Guide demonstrated.

The ease with which one can access hardcore pornography on the Internet has become a standard joke in the popular culture… but it’s not funny when innocent young children are being exposed to sexually explicit imagery. The push in schools and elsewhere to get...

Filmmakers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg deliberately larded their upcoming film This Is The End with unbelievably graphic content, in expectation of getting an NC-17 rating. Yet even the directors were flabbergasted when their movie was given an R – more proof of how worthless the current movie ratings system is.

The Lifetime pay TV network has long been infamous for its movies portraying men as murderous, psychotic brutes, and women as their helpless victims. But now, the network is branching out, offering similar portraits of exploited maids, prostitutes…and moms.

In response to the growing tide of Americans sick of media violence, the Motion Picture Association of America launched “Check the Box,” which it claimed would help consumers. But in fact, the new campaign was meaningless. PTC President Tim Winter recently discussed what a movie ratings system OUGHT to look like.

“The dirty little secret at MTV is that their demo is not 22-year-old college students. Their demo is 12, 13-year-old kids, 14-year-old boys and girls who are often home alone and unsupervised.” — Rachel Campos-Duffy, a cast member on MTV’s The Real World: San Francisco (CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, January 21,2011)

The UK’s Telegraphrecently reported concerns raised by Equity, the union representing actors, about actors being asked to strip down for casting sessions due to the increased presence of sexual content and nudity on television.

After Sex and the City, Desperate Housewives, Girls, Girlfriends, Cashmere Mafia, Hot in Cleveland, Pretty Little Liars, Golden Girls, Designing Women, Sisters… what TV has really been lacking is more shows about four girlfriends, “each on her own path to self-discovery.” So ABC is giving us Mistresses.

Culturally, the first decade of the 21st century may be remembered primarily for adding “sexting” to our lexicon, for the mainstreaming of pornography, and for trashy reality TV shows where sex is treated like a competitive sport; but the backlash is building.

A girl is shown hopping on a pogo stick, as the woman making a video recording of the event says, “She’s a lesbian, by the way.” The girl falls off the stick and lands straddling a chair, her crotch impacting hard metal. “Nothing a girlfriend’s tongue won’t heal. That patio furniture just went where...Read more →